HPCwire: HPWS08

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Mar 19, 2010

Hardware Accelerators Are One Way to Help Wall Street, Companies Say

Can hardware acceleration save Wall Street? Well, not as quickly as a multibillion-dollar bailout might, but there was plenty of discussion at this week's HPC on Wall Street conference about the advantages specialized hardware can bring to market analysts and traders. Sellers of these products were all over the place, their booths were busy, and several sessions on the subject were standing-room only.

Feature Articles from HPWS08

Banks and Outsourcing: Just Say 'Latency'

(9/24/08) - A common critique of external cloud computing services is that big-time IT users, like major corporations and financial institutions, are nowhere near getting on board. That might be true for the new breed of "cloud" services, but for the financial services sector, at least, outsourcing is far from a dirty word.
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Microsoft Aims Newest HPC Offering at Wall Street

(9/23/08) - When profits drop, businesses look to boost productivity and performance -- and nowhere is that demand more urgent right now than on Wall Street. Yesterday, about 60 blocks north of the scene of the recent financial meltdown, Microsoft announced it has released its latest product to provide that boost: Windows HPC Server 2008.
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Accelerating Financial Computations on Multicore and Manycore Processors

(9/22/08) - Multicore processors promise improved computational efficiency, but achieving high efficiency execution on these processors is non-trivial. Moreover, in the financial industry, time is literally money, so high-productivity software development is just as important as efficient execution.
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GPUs Finding A New Role on Wall Street

(9/22/08) - Despite the carnage from this year's financial crisis, the arms race in algorithmic trading is likely to continue. Behind that competition are a variety of high performance computing technologies, such as commodity clusters, FPGA accelerators and Blue Gene supercomputers. One of the new kids on Wall Street is GPU computing, a technology that is making inroads across nearly every type of HPC application.
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Special Commentary from HPWS08

Michael Feldman
Intel: CPUs Will Prevail Over Accelerators in HPC
While hardware accelerators continue to show impressive performance results for supercomputing workloads, Intel is sticking to its CPU guns to deliver HPC to the broader market. Read more...

Michael Feldman
The Quantitative Models Tanked Too
The confluence of the U.S. financial meltdown and this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York might be one of those coincidences that's trying to tell us something. Read more...

Dennis Barker
Bad News on Wall Street Doesn't Diminish the Need for Speed
Considering the ongoing crisis in the financial markets, you might expect the mood at a gathering of people who make their living in the financial services industry to be kind of glum. Or at least very, very anxious. Read more...

Diane Lieberman
Beep, Beep, Ka-Ching
On the eve of the annual High Performance on Wall Street conference, it's ironic that the words "high performance" and "Wall Street" can be perceived as an oxymoron this week. Is it possible, though, that the very financial crisis we're in may bode well for increased investment in HPC? Read more...

Off the Wire from HPWS08

Microsoft Announces Newest HPC Platform - (9/22/2008)
ClearSpeed Accelerates Credit Risk Analysis - (9/22/2008)
Cluster Resources, Microsoft Demo Moab Hybrid Cluster Solution - (9/22/2008)
Sun, GigaSpaces Announce Benchmark Performance Results - (9/22/2008)
NYSE Trading Solution Delivers US Equities in a Box - (9/22/2008)
TS-Associates, Voltaire, Accolade Team on Performance Monitoring Solution - (9/22/2008)
Cluster Resources, IBM to Provide Moab Solution on iDataPlex - (9/22/2008)
SIMtone Announces ASPEED for Windows HPCS 1.6 - (9/22/2008)
Celoxica, Intel Collaborate on PCI Express - (9/22/2008)
SoftModule Joins Tervela Advantage Partner Program - (9/22/2008)
RapidMind Launches Financial Extensions - (9/22/2008)
Aleri Releases Benchmarking Results - (9/22/2008)
ISC's Star-P Supports Windows HPC Server 2008 - (9/22/2008)
Intel, Rogue Wave to Demo Performance Tests Results - (9/19/2008)

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Podcast: Intel Puts Its Chips on the Table
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Westmere Ushers in the Second Coming of Multicore
Latest silicon from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA will change the workstation-cluster dynamic.
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